Born on this day – Ted Hartley:

Ted Hartley

Actor

Producer

Navy pilot

November 6, 1924 – October 10, 2025

Stage:

13 (2008); Curtains (2007); Gypsy (2008); Never Gonna Dance (2003); Top Hat (2012).

Movies and television:

A Late Quartet (2012); Aloha Bobby and Rose (1975); Are We Done Yet? (2007); Bankrupt (2007); Banyon (1971–1972); Barefoot in the Park (1967); Barely Lethal (2015); Barnaby Jones (1973); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009); Caddyshack II (1988); Chopper One (1974); False Identity (1990); Gemini Man (1976); High Plains Drifter (1973); Holiday Affair (1996); Husbands, Wives & Lovers (1978); Ice Station Zebra (1968); Ironside (1970–1973); King Kong 75th Anniversary Tribute (2008); Laura Smiles (2005); Mannix (1973); Matilda (1978); McCloud (1975); Mighty Joe Young (1998); Milk & Money (1996); Most Wanted (1977); Moving Violation (1976); Murderers' Row (1966); Nero Wolfe (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Peyton Place (1965–1966); Race to Witch Mountain (2009); Ritual (2002); Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986); Scruples (1981); Search (1972); Shade (2003); Shipshape (1978); Tanner on Tanner (2004); The 12th Annual Monte Cristo Awards (2012); The 1999 Annual Golden Laurel Awards (1999); The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Chosen (2011); The F.B.I. (1971–1972); The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978); The Gin Game (2003); The Invisible Man (1975); The Laurence Olivier Awards 2013 (2013); The Magical World of Disney (1967–1973); The Magnificent Ambersons (2001); The Man (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1965); The Missiles of October (1974); The Player (1992); The Streets of San Francisco (1975); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); To Tell the Truth (1964); Walk Don't Run (1966); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990).

Born on this day – Henry Langrehr:

Henry Langrehr

World War II Veteran

Writer

November 4, 1924 – April 23, 2025

Book:

Whatever It Took

An American Paratrooper's Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II

by Henry Langrehr & Jim DeFelice.

Published by William Morrow.

Illustrated edition.

Published 2020.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0063027429

ISBN-13: 978-0063027428

Description:

"Extraordinary. ... Reveal[s] [Langrehr] as a person of great courage and strength who did whatever it took to survive." – Quad-City Times.

“Simply fascinating...reads with all the emotional impact of a finely crafted novel...an extraordinary and impressively presented military biography.” – Midwest Book Review.

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.

Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église. While many of the soldiers in his unit died, Henry and other surviving troops valiantly battled enemy tanks to a standstill. Then, on June 29th, Henry was captured by the Nazis. The next phase of his incredible journey was beginning.

Kept for a week in the outer ring of a death camp, Henry witnessed the Nazis’ unspeakable brutality – the so-called Final Solution, with people marched to their deaths, their bodies discarded like cords of wood. Transported to a work camp, he endured horrors of his own when he was forced to live in unbelievable squalor and labor in a coal mine with other POWs. Knowing they would be worked to death, he and a friend made a desperate escape. When a German soldier cornered them in a barn, the friend was fatally shot; Henry struggled with the soldier, killing him and taking his gun. Perilously traveling westward toward Allied controlled land on foot, Henry faced the great ethical and moral dilemmas of war firsthand, needing to do whatever it took to survive. Finally, after two weeks behind enemy lines, he found an American unit and was rescued.

Awaiting him at home was Arlene, who, like millions of other American women, went to work in factories and offices to build the armaments Henry and the Allies needed for victory. Whatever It Took is her story, too, bringing to life the hopes and fears of those on the homefront awaiting their loved ones to return.

A tale of heroism, hope, and survival featuring 30 photographs, Whatever It Took is a timely reminder of the human cost of freedom and a tribute to unbreakable human courage and spirit in the darkest of times.

Born on this day – Cleo Moore:

Cleo Moore

Actress

October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973

Credits:

711 Ocean Drive (1950); Bait (1954); Bright Leaf (1950); Congo Bill (1948); Dynamite Pass (1950); Embraceable You (1948); Gambling House (1950); Hit and Run (1957); Hold Back Tomorrow (1955); House Party (1954); Hunt the Man Down (1950); On Dangerous Ground (1951); One Girl's Confession (1953); Over-Exposed (1956); Place the Face (1954); Rio Grande Patrol (1950); Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1955); Slander (1956); So You Want to Be an Actor (1949); So You Want to Throw a Party (1950); So You're Having in-Law Trouble (1949); Strange Fascination (1952); Strange Stories (1956); Strike It Rich (1954); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Great Jewel Robber (1950); The Other Woman (1954); The Pace That Thrills (1952); Thy Neighbor's Wife (1953); Women Without Men (1956); Women's Prison (1955).

Born on this day – Joyce Randolph:

Joyce Randolph

Actress

October 21, 1924 – January 13, 2024

Credits:

Everything's Jake (2000); Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991); Honeybloopers (1989); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1957); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Modern Romances (1955); The Mail Story (1954); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Plainclothesman (1953–1954); Short Short Dramas (1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); I Cover Times Square (1950); The Clock (1950); Famous Jury Trials (1950); Buck Rogers (1950); Rocky King, Detective (1950); Gander Sauce (1944).

Born on this day – Robert Webber:

Robert Webber

Actor

October 14, 1924 – May 19, 1989

Credits:

10 (1979); 12 Angry Men (1957); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Answers (1985); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); Arrest and Trial (1963); Art Carney Special (1960); Assassin (1986); Banacek (1972); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1975); Behind God's Back (1989); Ben Casey (1963); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Brenner (1964); Bret Maverick (1982); Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974); Cannon (1971); Casey's Shadow (1978); Checkmate (1961); Chicago Story (1982); Courage fuyons (1979); Cover Up (1984); Cutter (1972); Darkroom (1981); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966); Death Stalk (1975); Death Steps in the Dark (1977); $ (1971); Don't Go to Sleep (1982); Don't Make Waves (1967); Double Indemnity (1973); Espionage (1964); Every Man Is My Enemy (1967); Eye Witness (1953); Family Solicitor (1961); Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975); Gardenia il giustiziere della mala (Gardenia) (1979); Getting Physical (1984); Griff (1973); Half Nelson (1985); Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977); Harper (1966); Hauser's Memory (1970); Hawkins (1973); Highway 301 (1950); Hysteria (1965); I Spy (1956); In Like Flynn (1985); Ironside (1973); Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954); Judgment Day (1981); Kaz (1978); Kojak (1973); Kraft Mystery Theatre (1955); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Lights Out (1951); L'imprécateur (1977); Love, American Style (1972); Macédoine (1970); Madame Claude (1977); Mama (1955); Mannix (1971); Manon 70 (1968); Martin Kane, Private Eye (1954); McCloud (1971); McCoy (1976); McMillan & Wife (1977); Midway (1976); Mission: Impossible (1972); Modern Romances (1955); Moonlighting (1986); Mr. Broadway (1964); Murder or Mercy (1974); Naked City (1963); New York Confidential (1959); No Man's Land (1984); Not Just Another Affair (1982); Nuts (1987); Omnibus (1953); One Step Beyond (1959); Out There (1951); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); Police Woman (1975); Private Benjamin (1980); Quincy, M.E. (1977); Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Route 66 (1962); S.O.B. (1981); S.W.A.T. (1975); San Francisco International Airport (1970); Search (1973); Shooting Stars (1983); Something Is Out There (1988); Squadra antifurto (1976); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stoney Burke (1962); Studio One (1951); Sunday Lovers (1980); Suspense (1950); Switch (1975); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Tenafly (1973); Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980); The Big Bounce (1969); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969); The Choirboys (1977); The Dangerous Mission (1975); The Defenders (1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Dirty Dozen (1967); The Final Option (1982); The Fugitive (1964); The Great White Hope (1970); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Hired Killer (1966); The Investigators (1961); The Ladies (1987); The Magical World of Disney (1978); The Magician (1973); The Manhunter (1974); The Movie Murderer (1970); The Name of the Game (1968); The Nun and the Sergeant (1962); The Nurses (1963); The Outer Limits (1964); The Paradine Case (1962); The Phil Silvers Show (1956); The Rifleman (1959); The Rockford Files (1975); The Rogues (1965); The Sandpiper (1965); The Silencers (1966); The Streets of L.A. (1979); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Stripper (1963); The Third Day (1965); The Two Lives of Carol Letner (1981); The Virginian (1970); The Warden (1963); The Web (1951); The Young Lawyers (1971); Theatre '62 (1962); Thief (1971); Three Steps to Heaven (1953); Thriller (1961); Too Young to Go Steady (1959); Tous vedettes! (1980); True Story (1957); Wild Geese II (1985); Wrong Is Right (1982).

Born on this day – Doris Grau:

Doris Grau

Actress

Script supervisor

October 12, 1924 – December 30, 1995

Credits:

A Rage to Live (1965); A Touch of Scandal (1984); All Is Forgiven (1986); Angel Dusted (1981); Another Man, Another Chance (1977); Babe (1995); Bare Essence (1983); Blue (1968); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); Caveman (1981); CBS Summer Playhouse (1989); Cheers (1983–1987); Clay Pigeon (1971); Clue (1985); Coldblooded (1995); Coward of the County (1981); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969); Frasier (1995); Goldie and the Boxer (1979); Good Advice (1993); Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); Heroes (1977); How Do I Love Thee? (1970); Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983); King Kong (1976); Making It (1971); Marie (1985); Miracles (1986); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); Monty (1994); My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985); No Way Out (1987); Phenom (1994); Pieces of Dreams (1970); Point Blank (1967); Quarterback Princess (1983); Rhinoceros (1974); Ruthless People (1986); Seinfeld (1989); Sibs (1991); Sleeper (1973); Snowball Express (1972); Tarawa Beachhead (1958); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Champ (1979); The Critic (1994–1995); The Distinguished Gentleman (1992); The Forgotten Man (1971); The Frisco Kid (1979); The George Carlin Show (1994); The Hunter (1980); The Klansman (1974); The Last Day (1975); The Million Dollar Duck (1971); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981); The Ransom (1977); The Shadow Riders (1982); The Simpsons (1991–1997); The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974); The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1990); The White Shadow (1978); They Came to Cordura (1959); You Take the Kids (1991).

Born on this day – Ed Wood:

Ed Wood

Director

Actor

Writer

October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978

Born on this day – Barbara Kelly:

Barbara Kelly

Actress

Writer

Producer

October 5, 1924 – January 15, 2007

Credits:

A Tale of Five Women (1951); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Alice Through the Looking Box (1960); Alien Attack (1976); An Evening at Home with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly (1951); Armchair Theatre (1957); B and B (1968); Barbara with Braden (1953); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Blankety Blank (1979–1980); Call My Bluff (1969–1970); Carissima (1950); Castle in the Air (1952); Celebrity Squares (1976); Comedy Playhouse (1968); Criss Cross Quiz (1957–1967); Cynthia Payne's House of Cyn (1995); Dateline Britain (1959); Dee Time (1969); Give Us a Clue (1980); Glad Tidings! (1953); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Hawaii Five-O (1978–1980); ITV Play of the Week (1956–1959); ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1956); Jet Storm (1959); Jubilee Dinner of the Concert Artistes' Association (1957); Kaleidoscope (1950); Kelly's Eye (1957); Let Him Have It (1991); Love in Pawn (1953); Lust of a Eunuch (1977); Magnum, P.I. (1981); New Faces (1974); Night of One Hundred Stars (1980); No Hiding Place (1962); Not a Word (1970); Parkinson (1975 / 1978); Password (1973–1974); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pearl (1978); Punchlines (1983); Read All About It (1977); Russell Harty Plus (1972); Shadow of the Tree (1951); Space: 1999 (1975–1976); Sunday Story (1961–1967); Television: The Magic Rectangle - An Anatomy of the TV Personality (1986); The Biz Quiz (1966); The Desert Hawk (1950); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1965–1967); The Flying Fontaines (1959); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Long Christmas Dinner (1949); The Male Animal (1956); The Paul Daniels Magic Show (1982); The Pyramid Game (1982); The Rolling Stones (1960); The Sweepstakes Game (1976); The Texan (1960); This Is Your Life (1973–1991); Those Wonderful TV Times (1977); Treasure on Pelican (1951); Tribute to Trevor Howard (1986); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); We Beg to Differ (1951); What's My Line? (1951–1984); Where in the World? (1973); Wogan (1986–1987).

Born on this day – Marina Berti:

Marina Berti

Actress

September 29, 1924 – October 29, 2002

Born on this day – Gail Russell:

Gail Russell

Actress

September 21, 1924 – August 26, 1961

Credits:

100 Years of John Wayne (2007); 7 Men from Now (1956); Air Cadet (1951); Angel and the Badman (1947); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Calcutta (1946); Captain China (1950); Duffy's Tavern (1945); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2001); El Paso (1949); Foreigner: I Don't Want to Live Without You (1988); Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood Glamour on Ice (1957); Lady in the Dark (1944); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Manhunt (1960); Moonrise (1948); Mr. Untouchable (2007); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); No Place to Land (1958); Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946); Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944); Salty O'Rourke (1945); Song of India (1949); Studio 57 (1956); The Bachelor's Daughters (1946); The Great Dan Patch (1949); The Lawless (1950); The Rebel (1960); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Silent Call (1961); The Tattered Dress (1957); The Uninvited (1944); The Unseen (1945); Variety Girl (1947); Wake of the Red Witch (1948).

Born on this day – Collin Wilcox:

Collin Wilcox

Writer

September 21, 1924 – July 12, 1996

Credits:

Books:

A Death Before Dying (1990); Aftershock (1975); Bernhardt's Edge (1988); Calculated Risk (1995); Dark House, Dark Road (1982); Dead Aim (1971); Dead Center (1992); Doctor, Lawyer.... (1976); Except for the Bones (1991); Find Her a Grave (1993); Full Circle (1994); Hiding Place (1973); Hire a Hangman (1991); Long Way Down (1975); Mankiller (1980); McCloud (1973); Night Games (1986); Power Plays (1979); Silent Witness (1990); Spellbinder (1981); Stalking Horse (1982); Swallow's Fall (1987); Switchback (1993); The Black Door (1967); The Disappearance (1970); The Faceless Man (1975); The Lonely Hunter (1969); The New Mexico Connection (1974); The Pariah (1988); The Third Figure (1967); The Third Victim (1977); The Watcher (1978); Twospot (1978); Victims (1985).

Born on this day – Lauren Bacall:

Lauren Bacall

Actress

September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014

Credits:

A Little Piece of Sunshine (1990); A Star for Two (1991); All at Sea (2010); All I Want for Christmas (1991); Amália Traída (2004); Applause (1973); Appointment with Death (1988); Birth (2004); Blood Alley (1955); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Breakdowns of 1949 (1949); Bright Leaf (1950); Chicago Hope (1998); Confidential Agent (1945); Dark Passage (1947); Day and Night (1997); Designing Woman (1957); Diamonds (1999); Dinner at Eight (1989); Dogville (2003); Dr. Kildare (1963); Eve (2008); Family Guy (2014); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995); Happy Endings (1975); Harper (1966); HealtH (1980); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); Innocent Victim (1989); Key Largo (1948); Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999); Manderlay (2005); Misery (1990); Mr. Broadway (1964); Mr. North (1988); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); My Fellow Americans (1996); North West Frontier (1959); Perfect Gentlemen (1978); Presence of Mind (1999); Producers' Showcase (1955); Ready to Wear (1994); Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King (2008); Screen One (1993); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Shock Treatment (1964); The Big Sleep (1946); The Cobweb (1955); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The Fan (1981); The Forger (2012); The Gift of Love (1958); The Limit (2004); The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996); The Portrait (1993); The Real Story of the Three Little Kittens (1990); The Real Story of... (1991); The Rockford Files (1979); The Shootist (1976); The Sopranos (2006); The Venice Project (1999); The Walker (2007); These Foolish Things (2006); To Have and Have Not (1944); Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999); Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946); Woman's World (1954); Written on the Wind (1956); Young Man with a Horn (1950).

Born on this day – Scott Brady:

Scott Brady

Actor

September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985

Born on this day – Sylvia Miles:

Sylvia Miles

Actress

September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019

Born on this day – Jane Greer:

Jane Greer

Actress

September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001

Born on this day – Leonard Rosenman:

Leonard Rosenman

Composer

Musician

September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008

Born on this day – Joan Aiken:

Joan Aiken

Writer

September 4, 1924 – January 4, 2004

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977); A Bundle of Nerves (1976); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Children's Literary Treasury (2022); A Cluster of Separate Sparks / aka The Butterfly Picnic (1972); A Creepy Company (1993); A Fit of Shivers (1990); A Foot in the Grave (1989); A Ghostly Gallery (2023); A Goose on Your Grave (1987); A Handful of Gold (1995); A Harp of Fishbones (1972); A Necklace of Raindrops (1968); A Small Pinch of Weather (1969); A Touch of Chill (1979); A Whisper in the Night (1981); All and More / aka All You've Ever Wanted (1953); All But a Few (1974); Arabel and Mortimer Stories (2019); Arabel's Raven (1972); Armitage, Armitage Fly Away Home (1968); Bestiary! (1985); Black Hearts in Battersea (1964); Blackground (1989); Bone and Dream (2002); Bridle the Wind (1983); Castle Barebane (1976); Chilling Christmas Tales (1992); Christmas Forever (1993); Cold Shoulder Road (1995); Come Flee with Me (1978); Conrad Aiken, Our Father (1989); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dangerous Games (1999); Dark Interval / aka Hate Begins at Home (1967); Dead Man's Lane (1996); Deception / aka If I Were You (1987); Dido and Pa (1986); Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972); Drabble II - Double Century (1990); Eliza's Daughter (1994); Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes (1984); Emma Watson (1996); Escaped Black Mamba (1973); Fantastic Fables (2023); Fantasy Stories (1994); Fantasy Stories (1996); Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice (1984); Foul Matter (1983); Ghostly Beasts (2002); Ghostly Haunts (1994); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Girl's Choice (1969); Give Yourself a Fright (1989); Go Saddle the Sea (1977); Gothic (2004); Haunting Christmas Tales (1991); Helena and the Wild Man (2000); Horror Stories (1988); In Thunder's Pocket (2001); Is / aka Is Underground (1992); ise Girl (2000); Jane Fairfax (1990); Lady Catherine's Necklace (2000); Last Movement (1977); Mansfield Revisited (1984); Mice and Mendelson (1978); Midnight Is a Place (1974); Midwinter Nightingale (2003); Moon Cake (1998); More Arabel and Mortimer (2019); More Than You Bargained for (1955); Morningquest (1992); Mortimer and Arabel (1992); Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1979); Mortimer Says Nothing (1985); Mortimer's Bread Bin / aka The Bread Bin (1974); Mortimer's Cross (1983); Mortimer's Mine (1995); Mortimer's Pocket (1994); Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1982); Mortimer's Tie (1976); Mystery Stories (1996); Mystifying (2008); New Terrors 1 (1980); New Terrors Omnibus (1985); Night Fall (1969); Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966); Nightshade (2000); Not What You Expected (1974); Over the Rainbow (1983); Past Eight O'Clock (1986); Psychos (2012); Return to Harken House / aka Voices (1988); Scaremongers (1998); Scary! (1998); Secret City (1997); Serve Me Stefan (2000); Shadows and Moonshine (1990); Shivers for Christmas (1995); Silent Night (2002); Silver Jackanory (1991); Simply the Best (1996); Siren Stories (2023); Skin of the Soul (1990); Smoke from Cromwell's Time (1970); Snow Horse (2004); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2002); Song of Mat and Ben (2000); Spellbound (2007); Strangeness (1977); Street (1978); Tale of a One-Way Street (1978); The 10th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1969); The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967); The Angel Inn (1976); The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 (2009); The Cockatrice Boys (1996); The Crystal Crow (1967); The Cuckoo Tree (1971); The Dark Side (2007); The Embroidered Sunset (1970); The Erl King's Daughter (1988); The Faithless Lollybird (1977); The Far Forests (1977); The Fifth Armada Ghost Book (1973); The Fifth Ghost Book (1969); The Five-Minute Marriage (1977); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966); The Fortune Hunters (1965); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Gift Giving (2016); The Girl From Paris / aka The Young Lady from Paris (1982); The Green Flash (1971); The Haunting of Lamb House (1987); The Jewel Seed (1997); The Kingdom and the Cave (1960); The Kingdom Under the Sea (1971); The Kingfisher Treasury of Five-Minute Stories (2004); The Kitchen Warriors (1983); The Last Slice of the Rainbow (1985); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995); The Midnight Moropus (1993); The Monkey's Wedding (2011); The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974); The Moon's Revenge (1987); The Mystery of Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1982); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1975); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The People in the Castle (2016); The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds (1996); The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997); The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991); The Scream (2002); The Serial Garden (2008); The Shadow Guests (1980); The Shoemaker's Boy (1991); The Silence of Herondale (1964); The Sixth Ghost Book: Book 2 (1970); The Skin Spinners (poems) (1976); The Smile of the Stranger (1977); The Spiral Stair (1979); The Stolen Lake (1981); The Teeth of the Gale / aka In the Teeth of the Gale (1988); The Tenth Ghost Book (1974); The Tinker's Curse (1978); The Way to Write for Children (1981); The Weeping Ash / aka The Lightning Tree (1980); The Whispering Mountain (1968); The Windscreen Weepers (1969); The Winter Sleepwalker (1991); The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962); The Wooden Dragon (2004); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 (2012); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Youngest Miss Ward (1998); Triangles (1973); Trouble with Product X / aka Beware of the Bouquet (1966); Up the Chimney Down (1984); Voices in an Empty House (1975); Weather Witches and Wise Women (2023); Winterthing (1972).

Movies and television:

Black Hearts in Battersea (1995–1996); Jackanory (1968–1992); Jackanory Playhouse (1977–1979); Joan Aiken (1969); L'ultima fetta di arcobaleno (2023); Midnight Is a Place (1977–1978); Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986); Mortimer & Arabel (1993–1994); Night Gallery / Segment: Marmalade Wine (1971); Rainy Story (1988); Read All About It (1974); Shadows (1976–1978); Television Theater (1998); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989).

Born on this day – Peggy Ryan:

Peggy Ryan

Dancer

Actress

August 28, 1924 – October 30, 2004

Credits:

A Night at the Troc (1939); All Ashore (1953); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Babes on Swing Street (1944); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Chip Off the Old Block (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Fun on the Run (1949); Get Hep to Love (1942); Girls' Town (1942); Give Out, Sisters (1942); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1976); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Here's Hollywood (1961); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1985); Just Off Broadway (1955); Men in Her Diary (1945); Miss Annie Rooney (1942); Mister Big (1943); On Stage Everybody (1945); Oysters and Muscles (1948); Patrick the Great (1944); Pleasure Palace (1980); Private Buckaroo (1942); Sailor's Lady (1940); Shamrock Hill (1949); She Married a Cop (1939); ShirleyMania (2002); Simon & Simon (1983); Songs for Sale (1952); Stage Show (1954); Star of the Family (1951); That's the Spirit (1945); The Betty White Show (1954); The Eyes Have It (1952); The Flying Irishman (1939); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Merry Monahans (1944); The Mickey Mouse Club (1956); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1952); The Saturday Night Revue (1954); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Spike Jones Show (1954); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Wedding of Jack and Jill (1930); The Women Men Marry (1937); There's a Girl in My Heart (1949); This Is Show Business (1956); This Is the Life (1944); Top Man (1943); Top of the Town (1937); Universal Musical Short 3655: Singin' and Swingin' (1950); Val Parnell's Startime (1956); Varsity Vanities (1940); What's Cookin' (1942); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).

Born on this day – William Marshall:

William Marshall

Actor

Director

Opera singer

August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003

Born on this day – Evan S. Connell:

Evan S. Connell

Writer

August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Long Desire (1979); American Short Story Masterpieces (1987); At the Crossroads (1965); Deus Lo Volt! (2000); Double Honeymoon (1976); El Dorado and Other Pursuits (2002); Francisco Goya: A Life (2003); Lost in Uttar Pradesh (2008); Mr. Bridge (1969); Mrs. Bridge (1959); Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1962); Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012); Points for a Compass Rose (1973); Son of the Morning Star (1984); St. Augustine's Pigeon (1980); The Alchymist's Journal (1991); The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories (1957); The Aztec Treasure House (2001); The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957); The Collected Stories (1995); The Connoisseur (1974); The Diary of a Rapist (1966); The Patriot (1958); The White Lantern (1980).

Movies and television:

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990); Son of the Morning Star (1991).